Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown a….

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative..

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect..

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving g….

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as me….

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality..

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a….

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden..

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings..

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise..

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-e….

The stories I create are never as awful as reality..

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom..

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of informati….

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow..

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer..

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time..

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost..

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth..

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss..